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November 8, 2019

Stone Trial: Trump May Have Lied to Robert Mueller

Dan Friedman and David Corn Mother Jones

“The truth looked bad for the Trump campaign and the truth looked bad for Donald Trump.”

November 8, 2019

Three Words Trump Wanted: "Biden," "Clinton," "Investigation"

Tom McCarthy The Guardian

Senior state department official George Kent says the president had a very specific demand for his Ukrainian counterpart, to be delivered at a press conference

Voting Machines

November 8, 2019

John Oliver discusses how voting machines work, how they don’t, and how we can fix them.

AI Learns to Play Hide and Seek

November 8, 2019

Agents discover progressively more complex tool use while playing a simple game of hide-and-seek. This suggests that multi-agent co-adaptation may one day produce extremely complex and intelligent behavior.

Trump and GOP Allies Try to Out Ukraine Whistleblower

November 8, 2019

Seth takes a closer look at the president and his allies trying to out the Ukraine whistleblower while one of Trump’s own appointees admits there was a quid pro quo.

NYC Bids Adieu to Donald Trump (In Song)

November 8, 2019

Start spreading the news: Trump's leaving today!

Bernie Sanders on Socialism, Taxes and Criminal CEOs

November 8, 2019

Bernie Sanders, in a wide-ranging chat with CNBC’s John Harwood, discusses personal issues, his economic agenda and his hope to become a 21st century version of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

November 8, 2019

Friday Nite Videos | November 8, 2019

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Bernie Sanders on Socialism, Taxes and Criminal CEOs. NYC Bids Adieu to Donald Trump (In Song). Trump and GOP Allies Try to Out Ukraine Whistleblower. AI Learns to Play Hide and Seek. Voting Machines.

November 7, 2019

"We Work Here, We Live Here, and We’re Not Going Anywhere!”

Luke Butterly Verso

Migrant workers in Paris strike for better wages and working conditions-- and for the right to work and live legally in France.

November 7, 2019

Hitler: Still Messing With Our Heads

Christopher Clark London Review of Books

Two new books on the fascist leader walk different paths; one identifying Hitler as key to virtually every juncture of the party’s rise and fall while the other looks more toward his racial worldview as profoundly preoccupied with ‘Anglo-America.